The will to power can express itself only against resistances; it seeks that which resists it--this is the native tendency of theamoeba when it extends its pseudopodia and gropes around.

The golden fleece of self-sufficiency guards against cudgel- blows but not against pin-pricks.

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

Creation is the great redemption from suffering and all life's growing light. But the creator must be suffering if needed and accept much change.

The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?

If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.